For now they say, 'We have no sovereign, because we did not fear YHWH. What would the sovereign do for us?'

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. Therefore judgment shall spring up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

The inhabitants of Shomeron fear because of the calf of Beyth Awen. For its people shall mourn for it, as well as its priests who used to rejoice over it, because of its esteem that has departed from it.